diff --git a/core/linux-kirkwood/PKGBUILD b/core/linux-kirkwood/PKGBUILD
index 37d303f5c..62973731d 100644
--- a/core/linux-kirkwood/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/linux-kirkwood/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ buildarch=2
 pkgbase=linux-kirkwood
 _kernelname=${pkgbase#linux}
 _desc="Marvell Kirkwood"
-pkgver=4.4.176
+pkgver=4.4.189
 srcver=${pkgver%.0}
 pkgrel=1
 bfqver=v7r11
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ source=("https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-${srcver}.tar.xz"
         "http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/patches/${bfqkern}.0-${bfqver}/0002-block-introduce-the-BFQ-${bfqver}-I-O-sched-for-${bfqkern}.0.patch"
         "http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/patches/${bfqkern}.0-${bfqver}/0003-block-bfq-add-Early-Queue-Merge-EQM-to-BFQ-${bfqver}-for.patch"
         'linux.preset') 
-md5sums=('60d6f2fad92593d1d47ee83d79f58329'
+md5sums=('6260f3926477e99fd1d6c6356dd856fa'
          '3d14399c6859415d6ccc87f9a975a112'
-         'c35601e603c7717872c5811707dbd52f'
-         '3e1395098b87cb9abff8c96ceee2ca6a'
+         'bdfd302b3a20071dbccadc5644e49294'
+         '3f8445187c9d7397b2f561c9644c1a0f'
          '09d44b9f07abfaeaf4f688ee52034786'
          'SKIP'
          'c1d7fcfe88edb658375089c0a9cc1811'
diff --git a/core/linux-kirkwood/config b/core/linux-kirkwood/config
index 92eb2be66..49048a0ae 100644
--- a/core/linux-kirkwood/config
+++ b/core/linux-kirkwood/config
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #
 # Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
-# Linux/arm 4.4.175-1 Kernel Configuration
+# Linux/arm 4.4.189-1 Kernel Configuration
 #
 CONFIG_ARM=y
 CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION=y
@@ -2417,6 +2417,7 @@ CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=16
 # CONFIG_NOZOMI is not set
 # CONFIG_N_GSM is not set
 # CONFIG_TRACE_SINK is not set
+CONFIG_LDISC_AUTOLOAD=y
 CONFIG_DEVMEM=y
 # CONFIG_DEVKMEM is not set
 
@@ -2462,7 +2463,6 @@ CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
 # CONFIG_HVC_DCC is not set
 # CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER is not set
 # CONFIG_HW_RANDOM is not set
-# CONFIG_R3964 is not set
 # CONFIG_APPLICOM is not set
 # CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER is not set
 # CONFIG_TCG_TPM is not set
@@ -4747,8 +4747,6 @@ CONFIG_ARM_PMU=y
 # CONFIG_ANDROID is not set
 # CONFIG_NVMEM is not set
 # CONFIG_STM is not set
-# CONFIG_STM_DUMMY is not set
-# CONFIG_STM_SOURCE_CONSOLE is not set
 # CONFIG_INTEL_TH is not set
 
 #
diff --git a/core/linux-kirkwood/linux-kirkwood.install b/core/linux-kirkwood/linux-kirkwood.install
index 209f6466c..5ee3597f7 100644
--- a/core/linux-kirkwood/linux-kirkwood.install
+++ b/core/linux-kirkwood/linux-kirkwood.install
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # arg 2:  the old package version
 
 KERNEL_NAME=-kirkwood
-KERNEL_VERSION=4.4.169-1-ARCH
+KERNEL_VERSION=4.4.189-1-ARCH
 
 post_install () {
   # updating module dependencies